The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23


winds by good hedges. The PROTECTOR
thus afforded is much better than high
| walls.
Even two or three feeds of cooked tur'
nips or potatoes each week is better than
to omit such food altogether. 1t is variety
that promotes health and keeps the stock
in condition.
Liquid alcoholic plastic, grating, is
made of one part by weight of beeswax,
two parts of tallow, and four parts OF
rosin, made at low heat until thorough.
ly incorporated.
Sudden changes of the weather cause
disease among fowls much sooner than
long continued cold or warm weather.
Roup, very contagious disease, is usu'
ally due to dampness.
Carriages and farm wagons might be
made to last twice as long if only few
moments were spent each week during dry
weather in Tightening up the bolts that
hold the wagon together.
Oats should soon be sown, even at the
North. If the crop is treated with top
dressing composed of three parts of land
plaster and one part of nitrate of soda,
they will make good crop.
A colt once stunted never fully recov-
ers from the effects. 1t is quite necessary
then that colts be kept steadily growing
during the winter, even if it requires spe-
cial care and attention to do it.
Give plenty of green food now while
the ground is frozen. Cabbages, onions
and steamed chopped hay are very good
for stimulating the fowls, and it will
greatly increase the laying of eggs.
When the fibre of ramie is prepared, it
is white, fine and silk-like, producing
fabrics of great lustre. AS yet, however,
no machinery has been invented calcu-
lated to do the business well and econom-
ically.
Should spring open early, and the
grass start, do not be tempted to allow
the stock to Craze on it until it is we'll
under growth. Trampling on young
grass does more damage than grazing it
closely.
There seems to be an agreement among
English journals that stabbed cattle should
be fed in the winter five times day.
That is the number of meals the thrifty
owners generally adopt themselves. The
American plan is feeding three times.
All fowls that feather slowly are usually
hardy. For instance, the Brahmas. 1t is
owing to the fact that the drain on the
system occasioned by quick feathering
does not weaken them. Slow feathering
while growing is indicative of hardness.
Cows need light, not only for their own
health and comfort, but because good
butter cannot be made from the milk of
COWS kept in dark stables. Air, light,
cleanliness and warmth are four essentials
of cow stable where COWS are kept for
profit.
If your garden plot is selected rake it
over as soon as the weather will permit
and burn up every vestige of grass and
weeds, so as to destroy not only seeds,
but insects. A covering of straw, leaves
or stalks, burned over the grouna, will
be an advantage.
Potato-growers should 60 over the field
with a common harrow, running length
wise of the rows, just before the plants
push their noses through, and thus de-
stroy all the weeds; afterward cultivate
fiat through the season, using only the
common cultivator.
An English journal gives the manner of
arriving at the weight of fat animal by
measurement. Multiply the square of the
girth by the length, and the products by
1888. Take the length from the shoulder
top to the tail-head, and the depth i'm
mediately behind the shoulder.
Ed. Curtis says: "Most hog-pens are
q disgrace and nuisance. They foul the
animals in them and poison the air for
rods around. Something to absorb and
deodorize the dropping, when the quar-
ters are narrow, should be used-such as
cut straw, sawdust, dry earth and good
sprinkling of common land plaster.
1t is claimed that 400 pounds of butter
per annum is the average for Jersey COWS;
but this is a high estimate, considering
the neglect given them on some farms.
The COWS do not average more than 300
milking days in the year, and to produce
400 pounds of butter every year calls for
product of nearly nine pounds of butter
per week for each cow.
Where corn is left out in the stock
through the winter the greater part of
its value is lost Rains and melting SHOWS
soak and drain the stalks of their nutri-
ment, while inside the stock mice pursue
their ravages without fear of their numer-
Gus enemies. A family of mice will easily
destroy once quarter of the value of the
corn in stock through the winter.
As an addition to manure or compost
heaps, soapsuds are excellent, containing,
as they do, not only the alkalies of soda
and potash, but also effete and nitrogc-
nous matter, so very fertilizing in their
properties. Indeed, we might safely say
that as fertilizers the average soapsuds
from the laundry are worth more than the
soap from which they are produced.
An Explorers Expedient.
Not few people have wondered how
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